In five years, this is the fifth or sixth time my account has been hacked and the second time this character has been stripped naked and my bank emptied. Other times weren’t as severe or they never actually logged in. It must be said that each time this has happened, Blizzard replaced all my gear an gold in full. Once I accidentally in-game emailed about 3000 gold worth of enchanting mats to a misspelled character and they had my stuff back to me that night.

But if you read the last two paragraphs, the two horrible stabbing pains I feel are the fact that all my thousands of gold worth of manditory enchants are gone, and items with random stats may be totally useless now. Ugh, that means there’s now a 100% chance I won’t play again till Cataclysm because the character is useless as-is. Le Sigh.

Hello there!

Account Name:
Realm:
Character Name:
Item(s) Restored: Aged Winter Cloak
Annhylde’s Ring
Bandit’s Insignia
Belt of False Dignity
Belt of Potent Chanting
Blistered Belt of Decay
Bone-Linked Amulet
Boots of Forlorn Wishes
Bracer of Worn Molars
Bracers of the Forgotten Vanquisher
Breastplate of the Lost Vanquisher
Cape of the Unworthy Wizard
Ceaseless Pity
Chain of Latent Energies
Charmed Cierge
Chestguard of the Recluse
Chestpiece of Suspicion
Circle of Arcane Streams
Cloak of the Shadowed Sun
Concealment Shoulderpads
Cowl of the Perished
Crown of the Lost Vanquisher
Deathchill Cloak
Defender’s Code
Dislocating Handguards
Dragon Hide Bag
Embrace of the Spider
Engraved Gargoyle Femur
Esteemed Bindings
Eye of the Broodmother
Fool’s Trial
Frayed Scoundrel’s Cap
Gauntlets of the Lost Vanquisher
Gaze of the Somber Keeper
Ghostly Wristwraps
Gilt-Edged Leather Gauntlets
Greensight Gogs
Headpiece of Fungal Bloom
Headpiece of Reconciliation
Hood of the Exodus
Hood of the Exodus
Ice Spire Scepter
Inevitable Defeat
Keystone Great-Ring
Leggings of the Lost Vanquisher
Leggings of the Wanton Spellcaster
Legwraps of the Defeated Dragon
Lost Jewel
Mechanist’s Bindings
Noth’s Curse
Pants of the Soothing Touch
Polar Boots
Polar Cord
Polar Vest
Punctilious Bindings
Robes of Mutation
Ruthlessness
Sandals of Crimson Fury
Sash of the Parlor
Serene Echoes
Seven-Fingered Claws
Sharp-Barbed Leather Belt
Shawl of the Old Maid
Signet of Manifested Pain
Signet of the Malevolent
Spaulders of the Monstrosity
Spire of Sunset
Staff of the Plague Beast
Swarm Bindings
Sympathy
The Impossible Dream
Thrusting Bands
Tunic of Prejudice
Vest of the Glowing Crescent
Wraith Strike
Wyrmrest Necklace of Power

Thank you for your patience and understanding while we investigated the situation that you reported. We have concluded our investigation of the above account, and we were able to restore as much missing items and gold as possible. We do apologize for any inconvenience this situation may have caused you.

Please note that items with random modifiers (of the Bear, of the Eagle, etc.) are randomly generated; therefore we are unable to guarantee that you will receive the same modifier you had on your original item. We are also unable to guarantee the restoration of trade skills, as well as enchantments or add-ons (such as gems, scopes, etc.) that your character’s items may have possessed. While we will make every effort to provide assistance in cases of loss, please keep in mind that the decision to go forward with a restoration is entirely at Blizzard’s discretion.

Thanks to DAYoung for this awesome picture.

Sleeping Puppy

Um, and I have to again praise my trust Panasonic Lumix LX-3 camera for being so freaking awesome.

Click here to see the whole set on flickr, where you can zoom into thhttp://Spacewater.us/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=752e full size huge originals too.

Spokanistan was no team in particular, just one of the names I thought was funny and used for my scorecard rivalry fun.

I made a little scoreboard while I was there tonight:

Sorry, it was taken with my iPhone, so it sucks. But I’m excited for the season!

GO AWKWARD SPOONING!

From Creative Surgical Masks for Dentists | Toxel.com.

Yeah, I think I’d run for the freaking hills if a dental assistant came in wearing one of these. Doesn’t it seem like these would be way better for use robbing banks? See the original post for more frightening pictures.

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God I love “The Intern” blog!

INTERN is back at it today, and was relieved to see that the eds hadn’t found a perkier, more mentally stable intern in INTERN’s absence (the old intern switcheroo apparently happens sometimes: on the train this morning, paranoid fantasies that Nemesis Intern had taken over and would be sitting there licking INTERN’s rightful decline envelopes when she got in). All is well.

INTERN has been meaning to make a list of her favorite small presses, and for this particular batch she has whittled it down to:

a) presses whose books were so good and smart and bizarre they reading them was akin to taking a psychoactive substance.

or

b) presses based in Vancouver, BC (INTERN had a Can-lit fetish for a solid 8 years).

and/or

c) presses whose editor or author at some point bought INTERN a misguided beer.

Tsunami Editions: Daring, almost psychotically experimental poetry press associated with Vancouver’s Kootenay School of Writing, actively publishing between 1984 and 2001. If you can find a copy of Brixton Fractals by Allen Fischer, read it. It will blow your dome.

LINEbooks: More experimental/political/Language-inspired poetry out of the Vancouver scene. Check out Reg Johansen’s Courage, My Love and pretty much everything else they published in 2006.

Anvil Press: Anvil Press publishes a whole whack of books every year, but INTERN always looks forward to when they publish the winner of the International 3-day Novel-Writing contest every year (which is, btw, coming up in September: www.3daynovel.com)

Tuumba Press: Who wouldn’t love a small press founded and still edited by, um, Lyn Hejinian? Wait, anyone?

Arsenal Pulp Press: Because they have a book coming out about knitbombing, or something—where vegan hipsters go out at night and knit cozies around city telephone poles. And that’s neat.

Muumuu House: Because they randomly sent INTERN a book of poetry in the mail, and it was good. That’s enough to make them an instant favorite, in INTERN’s books.

Now INTERN has a pile of submissions to read so high its top ms is actually in danger of setting off the sprinkler system.

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He wants to turn this country into a totalitarian nightmare, just like CANADA!

What’s not to love about having our healthcare decisions made by insurance company accountants?
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The government could be building a giant map of social networks using Facebook and Twitter, scraping MySpace pages, or mining the metadata associated with cellular phone calls in order to look for communication patterns. On the other hand, all of that computer power that the NSA is aggregating at the datacenters that are coming online could just be for the limited purpose of snooping voice calls and e-mail coming into and out of the US, but such narrow use is unlikely. 

What the NSA is doing with its massive and growing capabilities is still a secret, but it’s probably an extension of DoD efforts at mapping social networks that extend back to the early part of the decade. A new EFF lawsuit filed this week could finally shed at least a little more light on the nature of these classified activities, so that we can know for sure whether some descendent of John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness program lives on at the NSA.

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oh fuck yeah.  transform and rollllll out

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This site was made for me.

Can food and drink websites get any more niche than this? Rate My Rosetta adapts the Hot or Not formula to an online competition among professional and amateur baristas for the best latte art. To date, the site has amassed more than 3,082 photos of foam and coffee design from 496 latte art contributors.

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Yours truly,

Jules

julia sherred

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ewwwww.

I love the ’80s. But maybe not this much. The “Rubix Cubewich” contains “cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar.”

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“They can lose $110 million with LWR but turn down a normal customer who has never missed a loan payment,” he said. “If they don’t have the trust in me after 25 years, there’s a problem for Westpac.”

Having decided to withdraw his money, he then decided to make it hard for the bank by requesting payment in $20 bills.

He said the Nelson branch told him it did not have that amount and he would have to also go to other branches at Stoke, Richmond and Motueka. However, he insisted the bank have the money ready to collect at 9am today. He then took it to the Nelson Building Society, saying he would rather deal with NBS because it was part of the community.

His message to Westpac: “If you don’t support the community, the community won’t support you.”

$190,000 withdrawn in $20 bills

(via Consumerist)

(Image: MARTIN DE RUYTER/ The Nelson Mail)

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God damn i love this blog, I read every entry. Who knew an intern at a publisher could writer and be insightful about it too?

Last night while listening to the radio and drinking some sedative tea, INTERN had some deep psychic communication with Beyonce of Destiny’s Child, who shared the following publishing insights with INTERN:

“If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it.”

She’s clearly talking to publishers who rejected a manuscript, only to kick themselves when said manuscript is picked up by a publisher with better abs.

“Can you pay my bills? Can you pay my telephone bills? Can you pay my auto-mo-bills? If you did then maybe we could chill.”

INTERN already covered this one a zillion posts ago, but it bears repeating: Beyonce is now speaking as a publisher, letting writers know she wants manuscripts that bring home the bacon. Or is she speaking as a writer demanding a substantial advance? Can she chill with Harper-Collins, but not a small indie house? How big are her auto-mo-bills anyway?

“I don’t want no scrubs. A scrub is a guy that can’t get no love from me.”

Scrub = unagented ms from the slush pile. No love from Beyonce.

“My man’s been cheating on me. Been running round here with this little tenderoni.”

Man = author. Little tenderoni = rival publisher/agent. No love.

“Ladies, leave your man at home. The club is full of ballers and they pockets’ full grown.”

Obviously a call for female writers to leave the house and go mob some literary agents (“ballers”) at a writer’s conference (“club”). But only agents with really big pockets.

“You’ll be sayin’ no, no, no, no no when it’s really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.”

Every author’s response to rejection letters.

Upon massive public consensus, INTERN is going to take a break in a pleasant sea-side sanitarium (figuratively) and be back sometime next week. Peace.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060316/ap_on_sc/pi_prodigy;_ylt=AivbVtP9k3GuBZDkfZ_4ckes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-

give your favorite math whiz a big high five today for being so awesome. not as awesome as the aforementioned kid, but still pretty awesome.

…and a happy birthday to Sea-Spam irregular Olaries!!

You wimps are way to chicken to visit this link. I bet anything that your Huggies®** are too tight even to click on the link. There’s no way you could outscore me on this. I ruled this test.

Go on, I dare you to take it. What’s that? Afraid? That’s what I thought.

Go and measure yourself against… The Competitiveness Index!

_{** If you dare actually to click on this link, beware the image on the front page of the site. That is not one woman, but two. Yes, it’s two pregnant women, sliced into pieces and digitally edited together to appear ‘more leaning back’ and ‘more freakin gravid,’ ‘n stuff. Personally, I think it’s disturbing.}

I guess Times Square crashing is a little better than your WinCE ATM crashing right BETWEEN the moment you press the ‘$40 Fast Cash’ button and the little door opening…

From the teeny article:

And then, across the square, I saw it: the world’s largest Windows error message – on a two-story high e-billboard (I guess everything really is bigger in New York). It was the only billboard in the entire square with absolutely no movement….

Read about it at Network World.

From the article:

Darkness victims describe hunger pangs, lassitude, and a slow but steady loss of energy, forcing many to lie down. As many as two-thirds of those believed afflicted have fallen into a state of total unconsciousness.

Go ahead, try and crash it!

House of Representatives that is, as in, the Utah State House of Representatives that voted down a bill that “would have required teachers to issue a disclaimer to their students saying that not all scientists agree about evolution and the origin of species.”

My favorite quote from the article:

“If the creationists can’t win in a state as conservative as Utah, they’ve got an uphill battle,”

Read about it at the New York Times.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1613224&from=rss

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/28/1610242&from=rss

Read about it at Harper’s Magazine

Space.com reports that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) arrives March 10th!

You can imagine how freakin excited I am. From the article:

MRO totes powerful instruments that can investigate every level of Mars: From underground layers to the top of the planet’s atmosphere.

For one, the Mars-bound spacecraft is hauling the most powerful telescopic cam­era ever sent outward to scan another planet. That gear can spot rocks the size of a small desk.

MRO will chart water-related deposits in areas as small as a baseball infield. The Italian space agency supplied the mission with a radar designed to probe for buried ice and water.

Also, a weather camera will monitor the entire planet daily, while an infrared sounder is assigned the duty to gauge atmospheric temperatures and the movement of water vapor.

JPL’s Graf said that MRO will return more data than all previous Mars missions combined.

Read about it at Space.com

Can an Alligator climb a tree?

Can dogs taste sweets? Short answer: not really, especially if it’s Aspartame.

Do fat people fall faster than skinny people?

How do I contact Bill Clinton to lament the current political state of the country or maybe invite him to my Birthday Party?

How do they come up with gas prices at the pump?